Photograph or picture support



PHOTOGRAPH OR PICTURE SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED APR 7. 1919.

H. GILBERT.

Patented Jan. 11,1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY GILBERT, OF VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

PHOTOGRAPH OR PICTURE SUPIPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 11, 1921.

Application filed April 7, 1919. Serial No. 287,988.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY GILBERT, a subject of the King of England, residing at Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Photograph or Picture Supports of which the following is a specification. a

It is the primary aim and object of this invention to provide a device of the above mentioned character designed from a single strip of sheet metal and is capable of being subsequently bent to assume the desired form so as to receive and support a photograph or picture.

As an equally important object the present invention contemplates the provision of a device of the above mentioned character wherein the strip from which the device is formed is bent to provide a spring which cooperates with the rest of the construction in insuring the retention of a photograph or picture in the support.

More particularly this invention embraces the provision of a picture stand or support which is formed from a single piece of resilient sheet metal designed to be bent so as to provide a stand or support that is well balanced and which cannot be easily overturned subsequent to the mounting of a picture or photograph therein.

Among the other aims and objects of this invention may be recited the provision of a device of the character described with a view to compactness, and in which the number of parts are few, the construction simple and the cost of production low and the efficiency high.

Other improvements. and novel details in the construction and arrangement of the various parts of the apparatus will be brought out more in detail in the description to follow, which for a clear understanding of the invention shouldbe considered in connection with the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, and wherein. is dis closed forthe purpose of illustration a convenient and satisfactory embodiment of the invention. It is to be noted in this connection that minor changes may be made without departing from the principle of operation of the various parts.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the devlce.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof, and

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the invention.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now, more particularly, to the accompanying drawings there is provided a photograph or picture support formed preferably from a single strip of resilient material and which preferably consists of a main supporting portion or leg 1. This leg terminates at one end in an outwardly and upwardly curved picture receiving ledge 2 while a bracing portion 3 continues rearwardly and substantially at right angles from the upper end of the leg, being designed to cooperate with the leg in insuring the maintenance thereof in a substantially upright position. The strip is folded upon itself providing a spring 4- which extends substantially parallel to the brace while continuing upwardly at substantially right angles from the inner end of the spring portion is an upright supporting portion 5 which is arranged in substantial alinement with the leg 1. The spring portion 4 of course serves to "yieldingly support the up right portion 5 while an outwardly extending picture engaging hook 6 is formed on the upper terminal of the supporting tion 5 and signed to cooperate therewith to insure the supporting of'a picture or photograph 7, as indicated in Fig. 1. In this connection it is to be observed that the combined brace and spring portions cooperate with the leg in the maintenance of the device in an upright position. the fact that the material from which the strip is formed is relatively thin and since the rest engages a supporting surface the lower edges of the picture or photograph 7 which project beyond the sides of the device serve also as means for preventing the device from being overturned.

In use, it is only necessary to place a photograph or picture 7 on the ledge 2 and slightly raise the resilient portion to conpor- 1s opposed to the ledge 2 and de- Incidentally by reason of the leg portion and disposed at an angle thereto, and a spring portion connecting with the lower extremity of the upright supporting portion, the spring portion and the bracing portion being terminally connected to tend normally to draw the leg and upright supporting portions toward each other, the two latter being formed with terminal grips for engagement with the opposite edges of the card or photograph.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

HENRY GILBERT. 

